What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head?
Amina's homeland has been ravaged by war, and her family is devastated . . .
The women of the family - Amina, her two sisters and their mother - have no choice but to leave their home town, along with thousands of others, and head for a refugee camp.
But there are even more challenges ahead . . .

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“So current!”

So this is all fiction, but given the current issues in the world it so easily could be fact.
I would recommend to all over 11 years old. In fact I would love to see this promoted through schools as a class read and...
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“A book that stays with you”

Although the stroy is set in a fictional country, there is much that is recognisable from our world today. The story shows how small, seemingly insignificant, acts can develop until people loose their freedom of...
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